Missing in the Falls (A Sweetwater Falls Mystery Book 2) by Elle Gray

Author:Elle Gray [Gray, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Sweetwater Falls Mystery
Publisher: Elle Gray
Published: 2023-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

“Sheriff, I’d like you to meet my older brother Jacob,” Young introduced him. “He works in the IT department over at Sweetwater General.”

“And by works in the IT department, my sister means I am the hospital’s entire IT department,” he corrected.

Spenser stood up from behind her desk and walked around to shake his hand and immediately regretted her decision to do so. Bad enough that his hand was cold and clammy, but the fact that she felt something sticky on her palm made Spenser want to go dunk her own hand into a pot of boiling water. It was then she noticed the candy bar wrapper sticking out of his coat pocket and found herself sincerely hoping it was only chocolate residue on her hand.

A couple of years older than Young, Jacob was about three inches shorter than Spenser’s five-nine frame and had a heavyset build to him. His dark hair was thick and unruly, which matched his scraggly goatee. Behind black, thick-framed glasses, he had eyes the color of warm chocolate. He wore a black Pink Floyd t-shirt over a white, long-sleeved t-shirt, black jeans, and sported bright red Converse high-tops. Jacob tried to make himself look a little rougher and a little older, but he couldn’t hide his plump cheeks and baby face.

“It’s nice to meet you, Jacob,” Spenser said.

“You can call me Chronos. It’s my online handle.”

“Yeah, I’m not going to do that,” she replied. “Have a seat, Jacob.”

With Young standing against the wall, Jacob dropped into the chair before Spenser’s desk as she walked around and sat down. As discretely as she could, Spenser pulled a wet-nap out of her drawer and gave her hands a thorough scrubbing. When she was done, she sat back in her chair and looked to him.

“So, Amanda told you what the job is?” Spenser asked.

He nodded. “Broad strokes,” he replied. “Have to be honest, though, I’m not real comfortable working for the cops and kind of feel like this might be some kind of a trap. I mean, I’m pretty well known in hacker circles, and not to toot my own horn or anything, but I’m a pretty big deal. I’ve done some things that have drawn the attention of the Feds.”

“Oh, knock it off,” Young said. “You hacked a library database in Des Moines and moved everything into the ‘checked out’ column. Not exactly high-level, world-shattering stuff, Jacob.”

“But I did get a visit from an FBI agent,” he argued.

“Who basically told you to stop doing stuff like that or you’d eventually end up going to jail. Maybe,” she pressed.

“Yeah, well, I caught the attention of the Feds, like I said.”

“He’s not wrong,” Spenser interjected. “As a former agent, I can tell you we don’t go out to talk to people unless there’s a perception of a threat—”

Jacob turned to Young and grinned. “See?”

“However, the fact that you got a warning and nothing more tells me they perceived the threat to be low. It was probably more of a fact-finding, initial impression kind of visit,” Spenser finished.

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